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Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.
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Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Donnie Yance is a Clinical Master Herbalist and Certified Nutritionist, internationally renowned for his pioneering work in botanical and nutritional medicine, particularly the integrative treatment of cancer. Donnie has authored two definitive books on botanical and herbal medicine: "Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer" and "Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism."
Here Donnie and Dawson discuss:
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Donnie's background
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Why fear dominates medicine not love
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Turning an unhealthy person into a super-person
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The interplay between host and disease
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What cancer does when it hijacks the system
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Unpacking the characteristics of disease
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Creating resilience
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Optimize your health rather than fight disease
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The biggest new discovery in cancer: beta blockers for hypertension
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How the sympathetic nervous system is a major driver of metastasis
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The most important element of spirituality: kindness
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It’s not what's happening, it's how we respond to what’s happening
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Bring love and goodness to the world
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Kenosis - Greek word for getting the garbage out of our minds
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Telos - divine meaning of self
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Lectio Divino - divine reading, pause, allow divine to speak
Find Donnie's work and books at: https://www.donnieyance.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #cancer #herbalmedicine
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Monica Evans is a Clinical EFT practitioner and mentor for EFT Universe. Though she studied energy healing for more than 20 years, it was only when she learned Clinical EFT that she was able to release the fear-based reactions that were running her life. Inspired by her own experience, she made sharing these gifts with others her life’s work. Monica’s gentle and trauma-informed approach helps clients heal their inner wounds once and for all.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
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Monica's background
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Reiki, Transcendental Meditation, EMDR, and EFT
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OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
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Disproportionate responses
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Finding the root of your own issues
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Clinical EFT
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Covert trauma - the lack of something, like being valued as a child
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Child dissociation
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The inner critic
Monica generously created a code for listeners to receive $50 off of any of her private session bundles.
Code is HIGHENERGY50
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #stress #tapping #ocd #clinicaleft #peaceloveandtapping
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Brad Yates is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). He is the author of the best-selling children's book "The Wizard's Wish," the co-author of the best-seller "Freedom at Your Fingertips.” Videos on Brad’s YouTube channel have been viewed over 55 million times.
Here he and Dawson reflect on:
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Brad's background
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Why behind despair is fear and suffering
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Energy hygiene practices
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Healthy ways to manage our stress
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Seeing ways of improving your life when you get out of stress mode
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Exercise: Tapping for my wellbeing level
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Brad's future vision
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How tapping away stress can help develop a positive vision for our future
Find Brad at: https://www.tapwithbrad.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #stress #tapping
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Gene Monterastelli is a teacher, coach, and creator who helps people use tapping to transform the stories that keep them stuck. As the founder of Tapping Q & A and Tapping Mastery Academy, Gene has spent more than fifteen years helping thousands of people release resistance, heal emotional wounds, and take meaningful action in their lives and businesses.
Here he and Dawson reflect on:
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Gene's background
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Discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Tapping
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I’d played around with EFT tapping
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Why life is a resource management problem
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Finding the subconscious resistance
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How the subconscious mind acts as a prediction machine
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The ways it’s not survival of the fittest, it’s survival of the most fearful
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How the subconscious mind believes it's safer to do nothing
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Where to start ...often the hardest part
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The Peaceful Heart Network
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Bringing EFT Tapping to places such as refugee camps, schools, prisons crisis, and Rwanda
For more about Gene: http://tappingqanda.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #subconscious #tapping
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Fleet Maull, PhD, is a consultant, motivational speaker, social entrepreneur, and authorized teacher in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He also founded Prison Mindfulness Institute and National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing two national movements, while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence from 1985 to 1999. He is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Fearlessly Live Your Highest Purpose, and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good and Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull.
Fleet founded the Heart Mind Institute, offering online summits, courses, and coaching programs integrating western science with ancestral & contemplative wisdom and addressing themes of trauma healing, resilience building, post-traumatic growth, expanded states of consciousness, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, conscious entrepreneurship, and more.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Fleet's background
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The ways each of us has our own hero’s journey
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The truth of "the only way out is through"
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The pain paradox: that joy lies on the other side of pain
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Our own inner channel
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How the suffering of great spiritual masters sensitizes them to the world’s suffering
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A deeply embodied approach to meditation
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The Task Positive Network
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Why when plugging into source our nervous system untangles itself
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Feeling the physicality of the body which will calm your mind
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Spontaneous experiences of Samadhi or awakened states
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Why deeper states of awakening require consistent practice
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When deep states produce the risk of clinging to them
Get a free eBook copy of Fleet's Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness: A Direct Path to Awakening at:
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #consciousness #mindfulness #awakening
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Gurman is a motivational speaker, educator and the author of The Third Testament. He had a 20-year career in law enforcement, where he interacted with every echelon of society, from government leaders to the most under-served communities. He is also an ordained minister and host of the podcast Path of the Audacious Rebel.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Gurman's background
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Why 'love your neighbor as yourself' is the foundation of every religion
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The ways we do not see the world as it is, we see it as we are
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Reexamining your beliefs and asking out-of-the-box questions
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The taboo about death, we think about it as the end
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How energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form
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Evidence from Near Death Experiences and children who remember past lives
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A global awakening of consciousness
You can more about Gurman at: https://iamgurman.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #consciousness #energy #pathoftheaudaciousrebel
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Christy Whitman is a transformational leader and spiritual guide. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All and The Flow Factor. Christy has appeared on The Today Show, The Morning Show, TedX, and Next Level Soul.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
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How everyone has access to flow
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The importance of being present to find out how you’re feeling
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Why our consciousness lives in words, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, actions
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The bridge where flow starts to happen
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Three ways to cultivate self-compassion
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Being energy receivers and transmitters
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The way energy manages everything in your universe
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Ways to raise your vibration to a high state
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Asking yourself 3 questions:
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What do I want?
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Why do I want it?
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How do I want to feel?
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Find Chirsty at: https://www.christyandthecouncil.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #theflowfactor #vibration #energy
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
A pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, Paul Levy is a wounded healer in private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dreamlike nature of reality. He has authored six books, three of which are on the collective but unconscious psychoses in which we live. His newest book is a revised and expanded edition of The Quantum Revelation: Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality. An artist, he is deeply steeped in the work of C. G. Jung and has been a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for 40 years.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Paul's background
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Realizing that our lives are a dream
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How the act of observation creates the universe
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All one interconnected quantum system
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How to get in touch with your own wholeness
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Discovering there is only the eternal now
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How this life is a dream
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Ways our civilization can collectively leap into a new level of consciousness
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Allowing the magic of the universe
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Finding courage, blessing, grace and love hidden in life’s worst events
For more about Paul's work: https://www.awakeninthedream.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #quantumrevelation #dreams #dreamlikenatureofreality
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Maria Toso is a Danish-born author, spiritual teacher, and somatic healing coach based in Minnesota. Her book, Heal What Hurts: How to Heal Emotional Triggers (Llewellyn Worldwide, September 2025), guides people to release emotional triggers that shape the lens through which we see others and ourselves. Her method helps people become emotionally free, no longer dependent on others to change or on numbing agents to cope. Maria also teaches Yoga Teacher Training at Minneapolis College and leads international retreats and workshops.
Here Maria and Dawson chat about:
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Emotional triggers
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Body scanning
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Breathwork
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Maria's story
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Coping mechanisms
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How and why the body is a perfect expression of your spirit and your programming
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How many breaths we take in a minute
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What to do when you find yourself triggered
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Asking, “How old are you?” and let the place in the body speak
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Avoiding the victim story
Find Maria online at: https://www.mariatoso.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #healing #emotionaltriggers
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Seth Stewart is a longtime performer and creator in the entertainment industry, acting in major roles in some of Broadway’s greatest hits - including “In the Heights” and “Hamilton”- and performing with artists like Madonna, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, and Mariah Carey. Seth followed a deep spiritual calling that led him from the spotlight to the silence of the forest, building an off-grid cabin in the forest where he spent three years immersing himself in and reconnecting with the ancient wisdom of nature. His memoir, Follow Your Vision, Live Your Truth chronicles his journey from Broadway to spiritual guide.
Here Seth and Dawson talk about:
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Seth's background
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Freedom and meditation
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The heart as a compass
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Studying Yogananda and Osho
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Oneness with all things, nature, the universe, each other
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What if we could experience oneness right now?
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Why is it so hard to be happy?
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An energy shield designed to bring positive people and a high energetic state
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Inner awareness creates energetic sovereignty
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Energetic stability independent of what is trying to happen around you
Find Seth and his wonderful memoir at: https://www.iamsethstewart.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #energy #broadway #followyourvision #liveyourtruth